.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 342 210
Rank change year-on-year +110 -132 -62
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 792 351 942
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.82% 0.80% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% 4.36% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 735 310 753
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.11% -6.02%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,769 8,053 14,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.13% 18.36% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8,022 5,394 10,469
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,978
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +114 206 £55,000 +7.32% 66
North of England +42 182 £55,000 -8.33% 55
East of England +81 118 £60,000 +20.00% 28
Midlands +37 106 £55,000 -8.33% 30
London -105 95 £80,000 - 122
South West -12 80 £52,500 - 18
North East +5 78 £65,000 +33.33% 13
North West -3 65 £50,000 -16.67% 33
West Midlands +18 61 £55,000 -8.33% 17
East Midlands +8 45 £52,500 -6.67% 13
Yorkshire -19 39 £47,500 -20.83% 10
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.39%) IIS
3 7 (0.88%) CMS
3 7 (0.88%) Confluence
4 4 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.38%) DNN
5 3 (0.38%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.38%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.38%) Kentico
5 3 (0.38%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Magento
1 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 649 (81.94%) Azure
2 224 (28.28%) Azure DevOps
3 156 (19.70%) GitHub
4 138 (17.42%) GitHub Copilot
5 136 (17.17%) AWS
6 134 (16.92%) Azure AI
7 77 (9.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 45 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
8 45 (5.68%) Power Platform
9 34 (4.29%) Power Automate
10 32 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
11 30 (3.79%) PowerApps
12 27 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (2.90%) SaaS
14 22 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
14 22 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (2.53%) Serverless
16 19 (2.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.81%) Internet
2 7 (0.88%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (56.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (47.10%) MongoDB
3 154 (19.44%) Elasticsearch
4 143 (18.06%) SQL Server
5 36 (4.55%) Power BI
6 23 (2.90%) MySQL
6 23 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.52%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.39%) NonStop SQL
9 11 (1.39%) Redis
10 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.88%) GIS
12 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.38%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 72 (9.09%) Git
2 15 (1.89%) JIRA
3 13 (1.64%) NUnit
4 10 (1.26%) GitLab
5 7 (0.88%) MSI
5 7 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.63%) Postman
7 5 (0.63%) Snyk
8 3 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.38%) JUnit
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.13%) MSTest
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 116 (14.65%) Finance
2 82 (10.35%) Social Skills
3 57 (7.20%) Advertising
4 44 (5.56%) Games
5 41 (5.18%) Marketing
6 33 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (4.17%) Retail
7 30 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.78%) Law
10 14 (1.77%) Aerospace
10 14 (1.77%) Banking
11 11 (1.39%) Music Industry
12 10 (1.26%) Legal
13 8 (1.01%) Automotive
13 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.63%) Local Government
14 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.51%) Back Office
15 4 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 667 (84.22%) Developer
2 529 (66.79%) .NET Developer
3 106 (13.38%) Senior
4 88 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 72 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 62 (7.83%) C# Developer
7 54 (6.82%) Lead
8 47 (5.93%) C# .NET Developer
9 40 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (4.42%) Lead Developer
10 35 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 27 (3.41%) .NET Software Developer
12 26 (3.28%) Senior C# Developer
13 22 (2.78%) Senior Software Developer
14 20 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (2.53%) Senior .NET Developer
15 18 (2.27%) C# Software Developer
15 18 (2.27%) Lead .NET Developer
16 16 (2.02%) .NET Software Engineer
16 16 (2.02%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 792 (100.00%) .NET
2 518 (65.40%) ASP.NET
3 450 (56.82%) ASP.NET Core
4 237 (29.92%) CSS
5 235 (29.67%) HTML
6 222 (28.03%) Entity Framework
7 215 (27.15%) Blazor
8 205 (25.88%) React
9 188 (23.74%) AngularJS
10 186 (23.48%) RESTful
11 171 (21.59%) ASP.NET Web API
12 170 (21.46%) Vue
13 159 (20.08%) Node.js
14 140 (17.68%) .NET Framework
15 134 (16.92%) ML.NET
16 108 (13.64%) LINQ
17 71 (8.96%) REST
18 46 (5.81%) JSON
19 36 (4.55%) WPF
20 28 (3.54%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.98%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.53%) Digital TV
4 20 (2.53%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 17 (2.15%) iPhone
7 15 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.52%) Social Network
8 12 (1.52%) Sports Betting
9 11 (1.39%) BBC
9 11 (1.39%) Social Media
10 10 (1.26%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.26%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.88%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.90%) Windows
2 17 (2.15%) Android
3 4 (0.51%) Linux
4 3 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (65.78%) Full-Stack Development
2 415 (52.40%) Agile
3 271 (34.22%) CI/CD
4 269 (33.96%) DevOps
5 215 (27.15%) Microservices
6 167 (21.09%) AI
7 154 (19.44%) Machine Learning
8 146 (18.43%) Multithreading
9 102 (12.88%) Scrum
10 94 (11.87%) Software Engineering
11 88 (11.11%) OO
12 84 (10.61%) TDD
13 68 (8.59%) BDD
14 63 (7.95%) Kanban
15 62 (7.83%) User Experience
16 58 (7.32%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 56 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
18 52 (6.57%) Mentoring
19 50 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
20 49 (6.19%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 737 (93.06%) C#
2 519 (65.53%) SQL
3 259 (32.70%) JavaScript
4 210 (26.52%) TypeScript
5 30 (3.79%) PowerShell
6 28 (3.54%) Python
7 14 (1.77%) Java
7 14 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.88%) Bicep
9 6 (0.76%) Bash
9 6 (0.76%) VBA
10 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.51%) Ruby
10 4 (0.51%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.38%) Go
12 2 (0.25%) C
12 2 (0.25%) Dart
12 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.25%) PHP
12 2 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (8.21%) Degree
2 28 (3.54%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.54%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.14%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.38%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.38%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.38%) OCP
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.79%) QA
2 25 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.88%) NCSC
3 7 (0.88%) WCAG
4 4 (0.51%) GDPR
5 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.13%) ITGC
7 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 195 (24.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 178 (22.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.38%) Ansible
2 3 (0.38%) Grafana
2 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 525 (66.29%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.69%) Facebook
3 46 (5.81%) Google
4 21 (2.65%) YouTube
5 19 (2.40%) Adobe
6 11 (1.39%) Apple
6 11 (1.39%) Sony
6 11 (1.39%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.51%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.51%) Workday
9 3 (0.38%) Alterian
9 3 (0.38%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.38%) Splunk
10 2 (0.25%) Databricks
10 2 (0.25%) IFS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle
10 2 (0.25%) Sage